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Show HI WITH JAPAN, IS PHCIil if SHI Holds That Conflict Is Likely in Struggle to Control Commerce Com-merce of tho Pacific. By LeaBcd TVIro to Tho Tribune. PHILADELPHIA, March 12. ''.Japan ''.Ja-pan proposes to control and domiuato the commerce of the Pacific ocean or the Pacific ocean will run red," declared de-clared Leslie M. Shaw, formor secretary secre-tary of the treasury hero today in his Founders' day address at the temple. "There is no cauao for war oxcept religious re-ligious fanaticism that has ovor existed from the dawn of creation that does not now exist in an intense form betwoou tho United Sta'tes and Japan," said Air. Shaw. "YTf may lake our choice. "Ve may want some of the Pacific commerce some da3. There 5b only one way to get it. Forty yeaTs ago wo had only one-fourth one-fourth as much foreign commcrco to carry as wo have now, but forty years ago "we actually carriod three times as many tons in our own ships as wo carry now." 'Beyond tho Pacific occau aro a little lit-tle people occupying small territory: they aro small ot Hlnturo but their lending lend-ing boast is that they aro a little harder than armor plate. "Japan has figured il this waj. that not having very much tcrritoryj and labor la-bor being cheap, they cau build merchant mer-chant ships cheaper than any other country and they can operate them cheaper. "wages are a little higher than in China. Five dollars of our nioiicy, you know, pays sixty men for a day 'a work in the augtso valley. WageH aro a little higher in Japau" "When wa manufacture more than we can sell it will paralyze everything. We have a wonderful foreign commerce, but it consists largely of food aud raw cotton cot-ton and other raw materials. Of our exports you can pile 00 per cent of it on the docks and the world will come after it, beforo it spoils." |